제국과 친일문학의 생명정치 논리 -김동인의《매일신보》에 실린 논설과 해방 이후 소설을 중심으로-

Abstract

This thesis was written to criticize the working method of the biopolitical power inherent in Kim Dong-in's pro-Japanese literature and the logic of cooperation between Kim Dong-in and other pro-Japanese writers who sympathized with it. Pro-Japanese literature was a collective disease that internalized the logic of Japanese imperialism. This is because the modernization of the motherland found the legitimacy of cooperation and the necessity of the Great East Asian War in the reality of Asian countries, and for this purpose, literature justified submission to imperial politics. 'National Literature' was a tragic incorrect answer derived from the tragic logic of modernization. In particular, Kim Dong-in included the Korean people as subjects of the Japanese Empire, and reduced the role of literature as an instrument of imperial propaganda and propaganda against Western powers. The reason why writers of the day, including Lee Kwang-soo and Choi Jae-seo, agreed to and cooperated with the necessity of the Great East Asian War in Japan and turned to change because the empire's biopolitical governance system was operating structurally. In the logic of the empire that operates not in the way of repression and control, but in the way of inclusion and exclusion, the literary men of Joseon repeatedly describe the ‘Naseon Integral’ and ‘The Myth of the Emperor’. The act of confession, which is no different from a kind of sacrament of confession, was operated in a way that strengthened the permanent and spiritual domination of the ruling power by internalizing the mechanism of power and making it the principle of self-reflection. This thesis attempts to reveal that the empire's biopolitical governance and the logical similarities shown in Kim Dong-in's writings, which sympathized with it, are closer to the “unavoidable”, not “unavoidable” of Kim Dong-in's pro-Japanese literature. To this end, Dong-in Kim's editorials in Maeil Shinbo and novels published after liberation will reveal Kim Dong-in's contradictions.